[petsc-users] Is it possible to add KLU to petsc as external solver package?

Jed Brown jedbrown at mcs.anl.gov
Fri Nov 4 23:39:34 CDT 2011


2011/11/4 Gong Ding <gdiso at ustc.edu>

> KLU developed by Prof Tim Davis is suitable for solve circuit sparse
> matrix.
> And it shares some component with UMFPACK.
>

It's certainly possible, it just takes time. Do you know why it is a
separate package from Umfpack? Doesn't it do the same thing on a matrix of
the same format, just using a different algorithm?
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